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Job overview
Community Consultant Paediatrician - 4 Sessions
This post is for a Community Consultant Paediatrician position, in the Barking and Dagenham Specialist Children Service, based at the Child and Family Health Centre, 79 Axe Street, Barking, IG11 7L.
Rationale for post:
This is a job share post, following investment by the place based ICB to support the increase demand on Community Paediatric services. A lot of transformation has taken place already and continues to take place in Barking and Dagenham community babies, children, and young
people services. This post is currently vacant, and we wish to recruit substantively to this post as soon as possible. This is a 12 months FTC post - 4 Programmed Activities (PAs) post with Direct Clinical
Contact activities (DCC) and Supporting Professional Activities (SPAs).
On-call responsibility:
There is no on call requirement at night, although the post holder will participate in a daytime on-call rota 9am - 5pm to deliver child protection medical examinations.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will work as part of a fully integrated multidisciplinary specialist team providing care to children and young people with health needs, across Barking & Dagenham. The successful applicant will also become part of a large (30+ community paediatricians), dynamic, community paediatric team, across the whole of North East London Foundation Trust. The successful candidate will provide senior medical support to the team, and direct input on clinical cases. The consultant will be expected to provide guidance and supervision to the team, work directly with babies, children, and young people (and their families), and liaise as appropriate with other external health providers, and acute hospitals. There will also be the opportunity for the post holder to further develop links already established
with the local acute trusts, in order to continually improve our services. There are close links with the acute paediatric department at Kind George Hospital (Ilford) and Queens Hospital (Romford) alongside Tertiary colleagues at the Royal London and Great Ormond Street
Hospital.
Working for our organisation
The postholder will be professionally and clinically accountable to the Deputy Associate Medical Director for Barking and Dagenham (currently Dr Manjari Tanwar), and operationally accountable to both the Acting Associate Medical Director (currently Dr Basit Hussain) and the
Integrated Care Director (currently Melody Williams) for Barking & Dagenham, via the Assistant Director (currently Mohammed Mohit).
The post holder will be a suitably qualified Consultant Paediatrician with at least 2 years’ experience in community Child health. The post holder will be a GMC registered clinician responsible for patients allocated to them and will assess, manage, plan, and deliver care.
The post holder will support their peers and team leader and be an effective team member whilst working on their own initiative. They will have a commitment to collaborative working and actively supporting and liaising with other health and social care professionals and agencies.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Main responsibilities:
1. To be responsible for organising and prioritising own and others’ workload in the day-to-day
allocation of work.
2. To deputise when required in the team manager’s absence and delegate appropriately to
other medical staff.
3. To have organisational knowledge relating to Trust protocols and procedures and adhere to
them.
4. To be responsible for providing accurate records of information required by the Trust for
audit purposes.
5. To ensure effective risk management at team level by accident/incident reporting, assessing,
and controlling risk and ensuring residual risks are added to the Trust’s risk register.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
1. MRCPCH by examination or equivalent.
2. Full GMC registration.
3. On the GMC’s Specialist Register or within six months of CCT at time of scheduled interview.
4. CCT/CCST or equivalent accreditation in Community Paediatrics or equivalent training and experience.
5. Note: Portfolio Pathway (formerly CESR) applicants must be on the Specialist Register at the point of application.
Clinical
Essential criteria
6. At least 2 years General Professional Training in paediatrics.
7. years Higher Specialist Training, including 2 years in Community Paediatrics, or is able to demonstrate having achieved the competencies equivalent to the Highest Specialist Paediatric Training.
8. Valid Level 3 Safeguarding Training.
9. Valid BLS Training
Benefits
We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:
10. A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff.
11. A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our effortsto support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a ‘Top 10 Family Friendly Employer’ from the Working Families Charity.
12. Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors.
13. Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.